#Btk killer victims serial#

Rader escorted the girl to the basement of the family home, removing her clothing along the way and rubbing her. Thomas said Rader told authorities he then prepared for his 'encore' - killing Josephine. He then dragged the boy to his room, wrapped two T-shirts around his head and covered it with a plastic bag Rader pulled up a chair and watched as the boy struggled on his bed and rolled onto the floor, where he died, said Larry Thomas, a KBI special agent.

Rader first killed the girl's parents in their bedroom as she and her 9-year-old brother, Joseph Jr., watched. Rader's killing spree began on January 15, 1974, when he entered the home of Joseph and Julie Otero - a home he selected because he had targeted their 11-year-old daughter, Josephine, for sex and a killing, Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents testified. Rader appeared proud as he recounted the killing: 'He commented to me at one point, 'I'm sorry, I know this is a human being, but I'm a monster,'' Snyder said. Rader stabbed Kathryn Bright 11 times, Snyder said. Rader thought the brother was dead and went to finish off his sister, but Kevin Bright ran from the home. Rader said he shot the brother twice, including one shot in which he did 'one of those John Wayne things,' Snyder said. Rader had tied the brother up in a bedroom and tried to strangle him, but Kevin Bright fought off his attacker, Snyder said. Rader, he said, added that stabbing or shooting somebody was not his 'forte.' Rader rushed that killing because Bright's brother, Kevin, was also home. 'There was no way I was ever going to do what I wanted to do, and I had to put her down.' 'She fought like a hellcat,' Snyder quoted Rader as saying. Wichita Police detective Clint Snyder said Rader expressed disappointment that he reverted to stabbing Kathryn Bright - instead of strangling her - in April 1974, just months after his first killings.

Gouge said that when Rader recounted that the children survived, the killer angrily shouted, 'Christ!' He had hoped to kill the children, but he had to leave the scene before that happened. Gouge said Rader told him that the 1977 killing of Shirley Vian, who was sick at home with her three children, did not go as planned. Wichita Police detective Dana Gouge said even after detailing the killings to investigators, Rader told them he could be mean at times, but, 'On the other hand, I'm a nice guy, I'm a nice guy.' 'He certainly wanted them to know that you were being killed by BTK.'

'That was his form of torture,' said Tim Relph, a Wichita police detective. Some of the victims would regain consciousness after being choked and Rader would whisper in their ears that he was 'BTK.' He also had 'after-life' plans for his female victims, including one who was to be his mistress and another who would act as his bondage servant. Investigators said Rader told them he would use a squeeze ball as exercise to build up his hand strength in preparation for stranglings, that he typically masturbated after killings, and that he took underwear from female victims and wore them.

#Btk killer victims serial#

'He told me it was really bad for a guy to knock one of the neighbors off - it's not good for a serial killer because you don't want to kill in your own habitat.'ДЄt the time of his arrest last February 25, Rader, a father of two grown children, was the president of his Lutheran church. 'He stated to me that if he could really pull it off, right by his house, it would really be a biggie,' Lee said. Rader seemed particularly proud of the killing because Hedge lived just a few houses from him. 'He advised to me that she was going to the church alive or dead - either way,' Lee said. Rader had left black plastic sheets and other material at the church in anticipation of the killing. Lee said Rader told investigators he took the body to the church to 'have his way with her' - to fulfill his sexual fantasies. Tom Lee testified Rader told him that after strangling his 53-year-old neighbor, Marine Hedge, in her home on April 27, 1985, he took her body to his church where he took photographs of her in bondage positions. WICHITA, Kansas (CNN) - BTK murderer Dennis Rader took the body of one of his victims to church, a sheriff investigator said Wednesday.